It supports DHCP but it doesnt support DHCP reservation so the ip adresses of the bulb constantly change when rebooting the router and i have to look them up every time. Thats why i want an option to set static ip adresses so it doesnt change

You're not helpful like this. Setting DHCP lease time to high is not a definitive solution. If you know that there's a way to set static IP with "discovery mechanism", you should be able to help him.Supporting dynamic IPs is not simpler than implementing a plugin that set static IPs.Why should Home Assistant create a plugin and not you?

Anyway you can set static IP by MAC address reservation that is different for each router.

No, please if you don't know anything don't talk.The majority of devices have the option to set static ip FROM the device. Yeelights can't.With different routers the situation is the same, so please don't talk.

No, please if you don't know anything don't talk.The majority of devices have the option to set static ip FROM the device. Yeelights can't.With different routers the situation is the same, so please don't talk.

That depends what kind of device. I didn't see MAJORITY of devices like smart bulb can be set with static ip.

Sorry for not knowing anything, I am just 30 years network administrator that really doesn't know anything... IP adresses are given by DHCP/DNS server, which is your router. Period. Buy a proper router.

Then you should know that you can set static IPs directly from your PC, tablet and smartphone. And that is more user-friendly. Same thing for lots of printers, game consoles and wireless devices.Anyway you said:

dalanik:

this is more a router issue than client

He didn't tell his router model and it was clear that the guy didn't know anything about IP reservation.

I was angry because the first staff guy didn't try to help but he just said:

weiwei:

Also, you can ask Home Assistant team to improve the plugin to support dynamic device discovery.

What? I don't know where your anger come from... I was just trying to help him. I already suggested him do IP reservation on router because our device (a bulb, a bulb) can't support static IP allocation (did you expect we could provide a web portal and let user enter IP address???). The bulb already supports a SSDP-like protocol, any decent gateway should be able to find it easily through UDP multicast, it only costs a developer ten minutes to do that. I just don't understand why Home Assistant plugin doesn't support that.